Is there a difference between pink and blue tanning lamps?
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Is one better than the other?
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Salon operators frequently ask these questions of Team Wolff.
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When it comes to colors, people perceive pink as a “warm” color, while blue is “cool.” One of the enduring reasons why so many people enjoy indoor tanning is the relaxation and rest provided by a session in the bed. Early on, warm-tone lamps were the choice to enhance this aspect of our indoor tanning services. Today, successful salons concentrate on making their entire establishment warm and inviting for their clientele. Retail merchandising experts all over the world employ this strategy, installing warmer general lighting in establishments where the business benefits from more leisurely customer traffic patterns, and using a cooler lighting scheme when the owner prefers customers move more quickly about their business. (Example: Nordstrom versus the auto supply store.)
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With current technology, tanning lamps appear light blue in their natural phosphor state. To create a pink (“warm”) lamp, a small amount of strong red phosphor is added.
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With current technology, tanning lamps appear light blue in their natural phosphor state. To create a pink (“warm”) lamp, a small amount of strong red phosphor is added. This changes the appearance of the lamp only when it is operating. The small percentage of color phosphor displaces a like amount of UV-generating phosphor, so chemists adjust the phosphor blend during lamp design to compensate. This can be done to deliver any appearance by adding, for example, green or even more blue. This is not as easy as it sounds, because strong color phosphors are not available in every hue, and because the human eye cannot perceive some colors as well as it can others. We “see” yellow and yellow-green very well, but we don’t see blue all that well.
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If properly designed, sunlamps of either color will produce a cosmetic tan – it’s the phosphor mix, not the color of the lamp that affects the tanning process. You won’t notice the color of the lamp until it lights. Even then, you may not notice a color difference unless the lamps are installed next to each other in the tanning system, giving you a comparison. Therefore, as the salon operator, you will decide whether you want your beds to emit a warm glow or a cool glow. Once your tanners are in the bed, they should not notice a difference, either, since they will be wearing protective eyewear as recommended by your conscientious and well-trained staff. We recommend against random mixing of different color lamps due to unnecessary questions it inevitably raises from tanners.
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